Fellow American billionaire calls Elon Musk’s political activities ‘insane s***’
Fellow American billionaire calls Elon Musk’s political activities ‘insane s***’
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The Microsoft CEO and philanthropist accused Musk of ‘populist stirring’. Bill Gates has hit out at fellow billionaire Elon Musk and denounced his political activities as “insane s***.”. The Microsoft CEO and philanthropist, who went to Mar-a-Lago last month for a three-hour dinner with President Donald Trump, accused Musk of “populist stirring.”.
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“It’s difficult to understand why someone who has a car factory in both China and in Germany, whose rocket business is ultra-dependent on relationships with sovereign nations and who is busy cutting $2 trillion in U.S. government expenses and running five companies, is obsessing about this grooming story in the U.K. I’m like, what?” Gates told the newspaper.
Gates, who was speaking to promote his new memoir Source Code, suggested that it was possible for those in their field to “overreach,” and Musk should think about how he “can help out” instead of “populist stirring.”. “I talked a lot about polio and energy and nuclear, and he wasn’t dismissive,” Gates told the newspaper, observing that the president is “feeling more comfortable and vindicated than at any time in his life.”.
In another interview with the Wall Street Journal, Gates said that he backed the idea of reducing costs but cautioned against getting rid of entire groups, as Musk’s DOGE has pledged. “I think the idea that looking at government expenditures on a sort of zero-based budgeting approach could be a valuable thing,” he said. “I’m amongst the people who think the deficit needs to be brought down because otherwise, it will create a financial problem for us.”.
